The fact they used their own money for this.
We've been seeing more and more crowfunding projects for revivals, spiritual successors, remakes and sequels of old classics, even when most of them have a reputation solid enough to make a guaranteed profit. Games like Shaq Fu: ALR could have been self-funded, it's not like Shaquille O'Neal couldn't fund the whole game himself if he wanted to; Shenmune III could have been funded by Sega hemselves or any major publisher, the game is prestigious, didn't need a crowfunding at all. Even projects like Psychonauts 2 are way less risky than the original, there is no reason to crowfund them when they already have the money.
I'm not against crowfunding in general, some terrific games have come out of it: Undertale, Hollow Knight, Superhot... but I've been noticing a trend with nostalgia-based kickstarters. Those usually get funded, from the classics of old to the so bad it's good, most of them either don't need to be crowfunded because they have the money already or they are so excessively supported the games end up not reachin the levels of hype they themselves set up (looking at you MN9 and Yooka-Layle). And because they are spending the money of the fans, not theirs, there are less incentives to polish it as much as they possibly can. Again, not all crowfunded games do this: Serious Sam 3 and Shantae 1/2 Genie are great examples of games from classic IPs that were crowfunded and turned out to be great. But using crowfunding when it's not really needed is going to end up hurting them in the end. If Bloodstained ends up like Yooka-Layle and ends up being mediocre in the eyes of the public, the three major revivals would have ended up as a failure (MN9 for Megaman, Yooka-Layle for Banjo, and Bloodstained for Castlevania) and it would be reaally dissapointing for crowfunding in general.
At the very least whoever paid for Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back paid for it themselves, and didn't try to crowfund the game to milk its memetic factor. Whatever they are trying to do with this, they are puting their own money on the line, not the money of the fans. I can respect that.
